My photographic adventures on the other side of the world

May 2, 2018

Colour in the day

Wow, I just love it when I am able to think up ambiguous blog post titles that can be understood in multiple ways! 😉
Aaaaaanyway, today I am back to posting images from the sunrise photo sessions in Locarno. I took these images on the third and final morning, after getting up and out of the hotel particularly early. After setting up the camera I noticed that the screws in my filter holder were coming loose and that the filters simply started sliding through! As I didn’t have a screwdriver with me, I was reduced to trying to hold the filters in place with my hand. I don’t know about you, but I surely can’t stand still for two minutes straight, so it is a wonder that these exposures turned out sharp at all! Rather than just picking out one image, I thought it would be nice to show the progression of the sunrise and how the changing colours and contrast effects the composition. I did move between the second and third shots, thinking I had found a better viewing position, but looking over the images again now, I’d say I prefer the first composition.
The post-processing of the images was also somewhat more complicated than the previousimages due to the higher contrast in the scene. While I am pretty happy with how the processed images came out, I do want to revisit them once I have more Photoshop experience under my belt.